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Rocket To Russia: 40th Anniversary Editions

October 31, 2017 By

Rocket to Russia

Rhino continues its series of deluxe Ramones reissues following Ramones and Leave Home with this 40th anniversary look at Rocket to Russia.  This set features 3 CDs, an LP and a photo-filled book within its 12″ x 12″ box packaging. A total of 63 bonus tracks (only two of which have been made available before) will be included in this set. Alongside the original album, original engineer Ed Stasium has created a back-to-basics "tracking mix" of the original album, featuring some alternate takes

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

One of a Kind: Bruford Brings Box Set

October 30, 2017 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Bruford Box

As the founding drummer of Yes and a prominent member of King Crimson in the 1970s, Bill Bruford was a key figure in the developing prog rock scene. Now, he's preparing a box set devoted to the first band he ever created: the aptly-titled Bruford. Seems Like a Lifetime Ago 1977-1980 will include Bruford's complete output, with some exciting extras as well. The group's first two albums, Feels Good to Me (1978) and One of a Kind (1979), have been newly remixed in both stereo and 5.1 surround by

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD-Audio Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: Bill Bruford, King Crimson, Yes

Angel Heart: 35th Anniversary Expanded Edition

October 28, 2017 By

Jimmy Webb Angel Heart Expanded

Jimmy Webb's 1982 Lorimar album Angel Heart gets the deluxe treatment from Real Gone Music, expanding the original album's 10 tracks to 16 with six previously unreleased bonus tracks, including three additional songs from the album sessions and three demos.  The original engineer of the album, Mark Linett, has done the remastering, co-producer Fred Mollin has written the liner notes (with photos from the album recording sessions), and Jimmy has penned a new introduction to this underrated

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock

Review: The Smiths, "The Queen Is Dead: Deluxe Edition"

October 23, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

TQID packshot

The Smiths have been apart far longer than they were together in the mid-1980s, making the Manchester quartet today less of a band and more of an idea. It's interesting to see how a new deluxe edition of The Queen Is Dead (Warner Bros. 0190295783372), the group's most lauded album, interprets that thesis through its content and packaging. While the band may have made for a mere cult sensation in America, but in their native England (where success was fleeting but far more consistent), they

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: The Smiths

Speed of Sound: Omnivore's Black Friday Record Store Day Slate Includes Chris Bell, The Raspberries and Roger Taylor

October 20, 2017 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Raspberries Pop Art Live

As we continue to make our way through the offerings for this year's Black Friday Record Store Day event coming on November 24, let's now look at what Omnivore Recordings has on tap with its three releases. First up is the 6-LP The Complete Chris Bell.  This set, consisting of the solo output of the Big Star co-founder, reconfigures the material from earlier Omnivore CD releases: July's Looking Forward: The Roots of Big Star and September's I Am The Cosmos: Deluxe Edition.  As a bonus, the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Big Star, Chris Bell, Record Store Day, Roger Taylor, The Raspberries

Release Round-Up: Week of October 20

October 20, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

George Michael Listen 25

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! George Michael, Listen Without Prejudice 25 (Columbia/Legacy) 2-CD (Disc 1 & 2 Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3-CD/1-DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy is delivering a deluxe edition of George Michael's classic 1990 album.  Listen Without Prejudice 25 sees release in several formats.  The biggest is a 3-CD/1 DVD box set.  The first CD contains a

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Cheap Trick, Donald Fagen, Fred Astaire, George Michael, Jackie Shane, Joe Jackson, Nick Lowe, Pet Shop Boys, Steely Dan, The Jam, The Smiths, Willie Nelson

Rush Say Hello To "A Farewell To Kings" For 40th Anniversary

October 19, 2017 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

A Farewell To Kings

Rush are issuing a deluxe album box set for their fifth studio album, 1977's A Farewell To Kings, this winter. In stores December 1, the 40th anniversary edition of this album--the first of the Canadian prog legends' discography to go gold in the United States--will be paired with a full concert from 1978, remixed from the original multitracks by original album producer Terry Brown and significantly expanded from its original release as part of the live set Different Stages in 1998. Fans can

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Rush

Review: David Bowie, "A New Career in a New Town: 1977-1982"

October 19, 2017 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

David Bowie A New Career Cover Only

I. Art Decade Keep Up with David's Changes, read an insert from the David Bowie Fan Club packaged in original pressings of the artist's 1977 album Low and painstakingly replicated on the edition included in the new 11-CD (or 13-LP) box set A New Career in a New Town 1977-1982.  Indeed, it was no small feat to follow the restless artist's many transformations.  1975's Station to Station saw the formal introduction of The Thin White Duke, a nattily-dressed but rather unpleasant fellow; who

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: David Bowie

Tori Amos, Richard Hell Lead Rhino's Record Store Day Black Friday Slate

October 18, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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Rhino Records is planning 11 titles for this year's Record Store Day Black Friday--and two of them are fairly unexpected catalogue treats from two very different artists. First up, the label has announced an upcoming expanded edition on CD and LP of Richard Hell & The Voidoids' Blank Generation. Hell, a founding member of Television and one of the key figures of early punk rock in New York and beyond (his personal style of spiked hair and safety pins is said to have influenced Malcolm

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Aretha Franklin, Neil Young, Otis Redding, Pantera, Son Volt, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, The Notorious B.I.G., Tori Amos, Twisted Sister

Peaches En Regalia: Frank Zappa's "Halloween 77" Shows Collected On New Box Set

October 18, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Frank Zappa Halloween 77 Box

If you ever wanted to look in the mirror and see the famously mustachioed visage of Frank Zappa staring right back at you, has Zappa Records got a box set for you!  Halloween 77, due on Friday, October 20, celebrates the 40th anniversary of the musical iconoclast's run at New York's late, lamented Palladium from October 28-31, 1977.  The "costume box set" includes a mask and costume certain to spice up your trick-or-treating, in addition to a candy bar-shaped USB drive featuring six shows (158

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Rock Tags: Frank Zappa

Hitch a Ride To Rockaway Beach: Ramones Light Fuse On "Rocket To Russia" Reissue

October 17, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Rocket to Russia

A third 40th anniversary deluxe edition is coming from the Ramones and Rhino, featuring the band's third album, Rocket To Russia. With punk rock reaching a fever pitch in the summer of 1977, the Queens quartet and Leave Home's producer and engineer, Tony Bongiovi and Ed Stasium, again came together to record another hard-hitting album of urgent but melodic tunes. Drawing from surf rock influences (and featuring a significantly bigger budget than their previous two records), Rocket To Russia

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Ramones

Piece of My Heart: Janis Joplin, Dave Matthews Headline Legacy's Black Friday Record Store Day Slate

October 17, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Janis Joplin Greatest Hits

We're now around five weeks away from Black Friday - the unofficial kick-off to the holiday shopping season - and that means another Record Store Day Black Friday event!  On Friday, November 24, independent music retailers will join together to offer a host of exclusive releases as part of the yearly tradition.  Legacy Recordings is one of the first labels out of the gate to announce its Black Friday line-up.  This year's four-title line-up is an eclectic one, touching on classic rock, hip-hop,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Dave Matthews, Janis Joplin, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Prodigy, Record Store Day

Greatest Hits: God's Favorite Band

October 16, 2017 By

Green Day Gods Favorite Band

Greatest Hits: God's Favorite Band tells the Green Day story across 22 tracks on one CD or two LPs. (The band's last compilation was 2001's International Superhits!, released before the American Idiot years.) It's the first Reprise-era set to include anything from the Lookout Records years (opening track "2000 Light Years Away," from the 1991 album Kerplunk), and also features two new recordings: a version of Revolution Radio track "Ordinary World" with guest vocals from country singer Miranda

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

Ultimate

October 16, 2017 By

Bryan Adams Ultimate

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Bryan Adams rounds up the best of a 35+-year career on this new anthology.  Ultimate features 21 tracks including two new recordings, the single "Please Stay" and "Ultimate Love." The Canadian singer/songwriter/photographer's biggest hits are here, including some of his biggest breakthrough singles during the '80s ("Cuts Like a Knife," "Heaven," "Summer of '69"), soundtrack smashes from the '90s and

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Can't Stop This Thing He Started: Bryan Adams Plans New "Ultimate" Set

October 16, 2017 By Mike Duquette 10 Comments

Bryan Adams Ultimate

Bryan Adams is releasing a new compilation encapsulating the best of his 35-plus-year career into one disc. Ultimate, available November 3, features 21 tracks including two new recordings, the single "Please Stay" and "Ultimate Love." The Canadian singer/songwriter/photographer's biggest hits are here, including some of his biggest breakthrough singles during the '80s ("Cuts Like a Knife," "Heaven," "Summer of '69"), soundtrack smashes from the '90s and '00s and two tracks from his most

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, Sting, Tina Turner

Green Day Declare Themselves 'God's Favorite Band' On New Compilation

October 13, 2017 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Green Day Gods Favorite Band

The only thing more unusual than Green Day declaring themselves God's Favorite Band on their new greatest hits compilation is the path that took them to such a humorously lofty claim. The East Bay, California trio--singer/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool (replacing original drummer John Kiffmeyer in 1990)--were fixtures of the Berkeley DIY club 924 Gilman Street, performing and producing snotty punk releases on the independent Lookout Records at the

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Welcome To Your Life: Tears For Fears 'Rule The World' With New Collection and New Tracks

October 13, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

TFF Rule The World

If you caught them during their recent co-headlining U.S. summer tour with Daryl Hall & John Oates, you know that Tears for Fears have lost none of the power and style that made them a juggernaut of '80s pop. Now, with a new album on the horizon (their first in more than a decade), the duo are reintroducing themselves to audiences with a newly curated single-disc collection. Rule The World: The Greatest Hits showcases all the most popular songs from the Bath-born duo of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Tears for Fears

Release Round-Up: Week of October 13

October 13, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

The Who Tommy Live at Royal Albert Hall

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Who, Tommy: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Eagle Rock) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.  In spring 2017, in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust, The Who played the classic Tommy in full, plus an encore set of seven greatest hits at London's historic Royal Albert Hall.  This release includes every song from

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Pop, Reggae, Rock Tags: Bob Marley and the Wailers, Chicago, Dolly Parton, Montrose, Paul McCartney, Reba McEntire, Robert Plant, Squeeze, The Who, Woody Guthrie

Wilco Uncover Sunken Treasures On Reissues of Their First Two Albums

October 12, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Wilco header

Wilco is digging deep for new expanded reissues of their first two albums, due this December from Rhino Records. The Chicago alternative outfit was born in 1994 from the ashes of influential alt-country outfit Uncle Tupelo, following the dissolution of Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar's creative partnership. Farrar went on to form Son Volt, while Wilco began with Tweedy and the rest of the band--bassist Jon Stirratt, multi-instrumentalist Max Johnson and drummer Ken Coomer--plus new lead guitarist

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Uncle Tupelo, Wilco

Black Sea: Definitive Edition

October 12, 2017 By

Black Sea cover

XTC's fourth album, from 1980, receives a Definitive Edition upgrade as a CD/Blu-ray package with new mixes by Steven Wilson and a host of additional audiovisual content.

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Formats: Blu-Ray, CD Genre: Rock

Such a Lovely Place: Rhino Expands Eagles' "Hotel California" In November

October 11, 2017 By Joe Marchese 13 Comments

Eagles Hotel California Deluxe

The doors to the Hotel California are opening anew. On November 24, Rhino will deliver a new 2-CD/1-Blu-ray Audio set of the 1976 Eagles classic that includes the remastered album, ten previously unreleased live recordings, as well as hi-res stereo and 5.1 mixes.  Hotel California: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition is housed in an 11x11 hardbound book offering rare and unseen photos from the era, a replica tour book, and an 11x22 poster. Additionally, a 2-CD Expanded Edition (with both of the

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Eagles

Generals and Majors: Steven Wilson Remixes XTC's 'Black Sea' (UPDATED WITH TRACK LIST)

October 10, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Black Sea cover

Sgt. Rock (or is that Steven Wilson?) is going to help XTC fans this season with the fifth in an ongoing series of remixes of the beloved Swindon band's albums for Virgin Records: 1980's Black Sea. XTC's fourth album (and second with the lineup of singer/guitarist Andy Partridge, singer/bassist Colin Moulding, guitarist/keyboardist Dave Gregory and drummer Terry Chambers) was almost immediately praised by critics upon its release, thanks to a potent brace of catchy, frenetic, barbed pop/rock

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD Genre: Rock Tags: XTC

On Air

October 7, 2017 By

Rolling Stones On Air

1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Rolling Stones' On Air marks the first wide release of any of the band's live BBC sessions, recorded during the beginning of their storied career.  An audio companion to the recently published book of the same name, On Air features a bevy of tracks recorded between 1963, when the group appeared on Saturday Club just months after the release

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Unleash the Love

October 7, 2017 By

Unleash the Love

Mike Love is ready to Unleash The Love.  The Beach Boys frontman's new album features 13 original tracks produced by Michael Lloyd and featuring guest appearances by saxophonist Dave Koz and actor, drummer and Beach Boys devotee John Stamos.  In addition to the original tracks (including "Pisces Brothers," "Daybreak Over the Ocean," and the title song), the second disc contains a dozen remakes of Beach Boys classics performed by Love and the current Beach Boys touring band.  Available on CD and

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Blue Moon Swamp: 20th Anniversary Edition

October 7, 2017 By

Blue Moon Swamp

John Fogerty's Grammy-winning album returns as the first reissue via his new deal with BMG, featuring two non-LP bonus tracks from a 2004 reissue on Geffen and a new cover, based on the backdrop Fogerty used on the ensuing tour. In addition to CD and digital editions, the album (and bonus tracks) will make their vinyl debut, with black and limited blue LP offerings planned.

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Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

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